Ubiquitous Computing

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• Danah Boyd and Sherry Turkle video interviews

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  Danah Boyd , a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, and Sherry Turkle , MIT Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, were interviewed for Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change ...
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• Web 2.0 Meets Gov 2.0: Hacking Human Behavior within a City, FourSquare, MoMo #13, and AR DevCamp

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 400
  Mobile social communication is beginning to take center stage as the internet moves to real time communications . The recent explosion of interest in augmented reality is part of a wider concern to orchestrate a new landscape of contextually relevant information linked to location/place/time and mobile social ...
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• Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  The latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine is devoted to sustainable design, and one of the articles is by Experientia. In their contribution , Experientia collaborators Michele Visciola, Erin O’Loughlin and Irene Cassarino reflect on how smart tools can help reduce our CO 2 impact, and illustrate this with a case ...
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• MUE 2010: Call for workshop-proposals

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 137
  Call for Workshop Proposals In conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering MUE 2010 ( http://www.ftrg.org/mue2010/ ) June 28 - June 30, 2010 San Diego, CA, USA The MUE10 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop to be held on June 28-30, 2010 in ...
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• With GPS Equipped, TouchMedia Finally Getting Useful

  
  China Web 2.0 and Asia Tech News, Open Web Asia — Authority: 413
  If you come to China, especially to tier-1 cities like Shanghai, Beijing etc, you need make sure you are ready for one thing: Outdoor Advertisement (or Outdoor Media if it sounds more friendly) which is everywhere, elevator, taxi, bus, parking lots, subway etc as well as those huge outdoor LCD displays. Thanks to ...
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• Will consumers plug into home energy displays?

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  Dozens of home energy monitors are coming to market, but nobody knows whether only hybrid Prius owners will use them. Martin LaMonica reports on CNet News. “The gadgets themselves vary, but the common thread among them is the ability to capture a stream of energy information from a meter at a given moment. Simply ...
  2 weeks ago

• Losing Touch

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 422
  A Recent Wall Street Journal Opinion piece, " If Odysseus Had GPS ," points to a relationship between technological innovation and narrative genres that might not be necessarily there. Of course, telephone communication is often featured in movies , and cell phones have become an important part of plot lines that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Next Wave of AR: Mobile Social Interaction Right Here, Right Now!

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 400
  The Next Wave of AR: Mobile Social Interaction, Right Here, Right Now! View more presentations from Tish Shute .
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• Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 126
  From NY Times Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone After a lot of time reading "best medical apps" stories online, asking Twitter users for their suggestions and reading online reviews, I finally boiled the list down to about 50 promising apps. I tried them out and further winnowed the list to a bunch that I ...
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• J.UCS Special Issue: Mobile Context-Aware Applications for Ubiquitous Computing

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 137
  CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) Special Issue: Mobile Context-Aware Applications for Ubiquitous Computing Submission deadline: January 15, 2010 Mobile devices are changing users technological habits since the possibilities to be connected to Internet everywhere are increasing ...
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• jillchien:history of the computer(via fauxchenaux)

  
  RaNDoM aCCeSS MeMoRy — Authority: 441
  jillchien : history of the computer (via fauxchenaux )
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• Matt Webb presentation at UX Week 2009 (video)

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  Matt Webb of Berg was one of the speakers at UX Week 2009 , a conference in San Francisco organised by Adapative Path. In his presentation “Design Is In Your Hands,” Matt talked about developing products and learning from mistakes, and shared the lessons that his company grappled with during the design and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it?

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 400
  Amphibious Architecture – “submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged.” Toward the Sentient City , brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has ...
  3 weeks ago

• iPhone with One Hand Comes Naturally

  
  A Fool's Wisdom — Authority: 105
  Jason Kottke’s recent article “ One-handed computing with the iPhone ” (published yesterday, Oct 29th, 2009) begins: “The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone [ 1 ] is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A ...
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• The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 137
  We have now finished a first preliminary Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media 2010) in Jinhua, China. It is my pleasure to be one of the programme chairs. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)
  4 weeks ago

• What happens when good robots go ‘bad’?

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Household robots could be a means for spying, vandalism  and psychological attacks, according to read more
  4 weeks ago

• Pictures from an Exhibition

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 422
  The White House has released a Flickr set called the " First 100 Days " that presents a carefully selected digital album of images. Of course, some of them borrow from the visual language of the Kennedy years, but what is also striking about the collection is how many show Obama on the telephone, a traditional ...
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• Destroy the Rat

  
  With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. — Authority: 114
  Thanks to Christophe-Marie, who sent me a link of a very interesting video of a UI concept where the mouse is no longer relevant. Instead, multi-finger touch is used, with quite natural gestures. Here’s the 10/GUI video by C. Miller. Why do I like it? Basically, I agree with Mr. Miller’s points and ...
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• The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 135
  Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was invited to speak at Kimiko Ryokai’s Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley yesterday, where he discussed the relationship between products and services in a ubicomp environment, and presented a set of examples of device/service relationships that show ...
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• Too Many Gizmos

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 422
  In " The Digital Fog of War ," military blogger for the New York Times Captain Tim Hsia Instead of something akin to a smartphone, soldiers lug around several disparate pieces of equipment: GPS devices, iris and fingerprint scanners, charts for calculating collateral damage estimates related to artillery or ...
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